Chairman of the Central Military-Industrial Committee and member of the Special Conference on Defense.

4 The speech apparently concerns a draft law on freedom of the press submitted for consideration to the Fourth State Duma by the Octobrist-Cadet majority.

The draft law was not accepted by the State Council.

6 V. K. Sabler (Desyatovskii) — landowner, Black Hundred reactionary, prominent tsarist official, jurist by profession. From 1911 to 1915 — Procurator of the Holy Synod.

6 L. A. Kasso — major landowner, professor at Kharkov and then Moscow universities. In 1910—1914 served as Minister of Public Education. He pursued a reactionary policy toward education, brutally suppressed revolutionary students and progressive faculty.

7 Kadets — members of the Constitutional Democratic Party of liberal-monarchist bourgeoisie in Russia. The Cadet Party was established in October 1905 and consisted of representatives of the bourgeoisie, zemstvo figures from among landowners, and bourgeois intellectuals. In their demands the Kadets did not go beyond the requirement of constitutional monarchy; they considered their chief aim to be the struggle against the revolutionary movement and sought to share power with the tsar and serf-owning landowners.

8 Octobrists — members of the party "Union of October 17," formed in Russia after the publication of the tsar's manifesto of October 17, 1905. This was a counter-revolutionary party that represented and defended the interests of large bourgeoisie and landowners. The Octobrists fully supported the internal and external policy of the tsarist government.

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CONFERENCE OF THE CC OF THE RSDLP WITH PARTY WORKERS
October 6—14, 1913¹

RECORD OF REPORTS AND SPEECHES BY REPRESENTATIVES OF MOSCOW AND THE CENTRAL INDUSTRIAL REGION²

[October 8 and 9, 1913]

*Note.

Three types of workers' organizations (Malinovsky³):
1) purely illegal organizations (strictly party work).
2) legal (semi-party).
3) musical societies, etc. (not always social-democratic).

* — Notes, remarks.
** Word not deciphered.

1894 — APRIL 1917

**Nikolay⁴: the consolidation of cells (illegal) in trade unions led to the tramway strike and preparation of a more serious strike ((an all-out protest strike was being planned))

The beginning of a strike committee was laid

**Aleksey⁵:

Bolshevik administrations: printers 14 (8 social-democrats, 4 vacillators, 2 liquidators), woodworkers, leather workers, tailors, manufacturers, metalworkers = (with liquidators).

Illegal work in trade unions.
Elections by two lists: Bolsheviks and liquidators.

Trade unions
"Society for the Promotion of Rational Recreation"

(Under the guise of commissions — all illegal cells. In fact = to the Central Bureau.

Taken by revolutionary means from the bourgeoisie 2½ years ago.

All trade union members registered here.

Aleksey:

in the city — "Pravda" 1800—2500 return not
Conf. №№ distribution
less than 20%
even more through newspaper vendors — first artel 3000.

Strike movement under the control of party cells, by no means spontaneous.

(No MK)⁶:

Moscow in terms of protest strikes has awakened. Forces fresher than in Petersburg.

Shagov⁷:

3 circuits.
Kostroma (about 30 people*; report).
Sereda (25,000)**.
There is an organization. Three circuits (30—40 org.).

**Aleksey:** concerning the February conference knew very little,
2—3 people. There was 1 copy⁸.

* The party organization in Kostroma consisted of 30 people; in Sereda — 30—40 people; in Rodniki — 40; in Vyatka — about 50; in Kineshma — 15.

** The figures: (25,000), (8,000), (25,000), (25,000) apparently denote the number of workers.